acrylic, lace, fake hair, led screen, vinylNiCOLETTi
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.
The artwork features a minimalist and conceptual design. The composition consists of a stark white background with a digital display showing the number "8" in bright green. Prominently placed alongside the display are various objects, including a strand of curled brown hair, a set of clear plastic fans or blades, and a single feather. The overall visual style is clean and geometric, with the contrasting elements creating a sense of ordered simplicity. The artwork appears to explore themes of technology, nature, and the interplay between the organic and the digital, inviting the viewer to ponder the deeper meaning or symbolism behind the carefully curated arrangement of these disparate elements. ...
Julie Béna was born in 1982 in Paris, France, and currently lives and works between Prague and Paris.
The work of Julie Béna is made up of an eclectic set of references, combining contemporary and ancient literature, high and low art, humor and seriousness, parallel times and spaces. Comprising sculpture, installation, film, and performance, her work seems to often float in an infinite vacuum, unfolding against a fictional backdrop where everything is possible. Over the past years, Béna has developed a range of personal cosmologies in which she stages seemingly banal characters and objects that have enigmatic conversations and interactions with each other. From Pantopon Rose – a character taken from William S. Burroughs’ ‘Naked Lunch’ –, to Miss None and Mister Peanut – a disembodied floating wig and the iconic monocled anthropomorphic peanut –, Béna lends her characters a singular agency and voice, which defines them by what they are not. ...
